Word: unfamiliar
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Juno MacGuff (Ellen Page) is a not entirely unfamiliar paradox: one of those teenagers who knows less about the world than she thinks she does, but more about it than the adult world credits her with understanding. You're never quite sure which Juno you're trying to reason with, the innocent idealist or the shrewdly appraising demi-adult, especially since she offers all opinions in the same tone of voice - brisk, brusque, funny and very often dismissive of our pieties...
...main challenge that Walker and the cast had to confront in their production was Grellong’s melodramatic script. The play’s complex intrigues come off as somewhat contrived—even though its story of publishing and plagiarism is not unfamiliar to Harvard—but the dialogue often rang even more false. Twice throughout the play, Elizabeth tried to win David to her side, telling him that unlike Chris, the two of them are “old inside.” Moments like this one, where the script was too self-consciously trying...
...Like a concert audience that wants to hear only the greatest hits, they didn't know what to make of Obama's unfamiliar material as he honed his message and started spelling out his policies. The candidate was confused as well. "The expectations," he tells TIME, "are elevated to this odd level. Even when we do the spectacular, people discount it. If we have a crowd of 23,000 people in a red state in the spring, people sort of say, 'Ho hum.' We've raised more money from small donors than all the other Democratic candidates combined, and from...
...This is the scene Bryan C. Barnhill ’08 drove past on his way to The Game. It wasn’t Harvard Square, or even one of Yale’s gothic courtyards, but it wasn’t altogether unfamiliar...
...campaign occurred to Hickenlooper and writer Alan Sereboff on the first day of the labor stoppage. "Our initial intention was to bring awareness to the importance of writing in the creative process," says Hickenlooper. But putting together the project with borrowed equipment and writers serving in a range of unfamiliar jobs such as grips and publicists has been a lesson to the writers in the possibilities of studio-free Internet distribution. "The Internet is the future of all entertainment," says Hickenlooper. "We're happy to take advantage of it with or without the involvement of these conglomerates...